This past Sunday was the Feast of the Holy Family. The following is from the Magis Center’s daily reflection:
“Jesus, Emmanuel, ‘God with us,’ chose to be born as a member of the human family. More than this, however, He chose to have a mother and a father, and He specifically chose Mary and Joseph for these roles. This was not a random occurrence. God doesn’t do random. Christ ordered his coming in order to bless, validate and confirm the inherent goodness and necessity of the family as the basic unit of a healthy, rightly ordered society.
“The family is not a human creation. It is a system of relationship that has been divinely established and ordained for our highest good. The institution of rightly-ordered family is a gift of God’s divine love to provide for our most fundamental daily and developmental human needs as we support one another in striving for the Kingdom of God.”
May God bless all our families, and the family unit in general — key to joy and goodness in this life and the next. Our society and culture need it.
Don Spaeder
Murrysville